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Sep. 14th, 2005 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabethttp://wwoz.org is the link for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage station and if my memory is correct - they used to broadcast out of Louis Armstrong Park. TBQ, Lum - am I right? My memory is fuzzy but if this is the station I used to listen to - that is where they were located. Seems right. And that park as of last week, at least, was under water.
Anyway - this is a great link to find out where and how some local NOLA artists are faring post-Katrina. Also, you can donate or join or do something. I know everyone is already doing everything that they can for a gazillion different causes but hey - here is another one.
Also, they have a web-stream enabled (I think - I'm at work and can't access that kind of thing) and you don't want to miss that.
ETA: I was right! This is the same station I used to listen to and it is fantastic - real New Orleans music and shows and just a great community resource! General Manager David Freedman writes in his blog on 9/9 (after getting back into the city to inspect the facilities)
In former times WWOZ resided in Armstrong park-- a park with man-made lagoons. Now it is a nature-made lagoon with a piece of park in it. Happily, our studio is still in the park part and not in the lagoon part. We did take water, perhaps a foot or six inches, so we will loose the flooring. But Damond went into the building and ALL of our equipment seems to be fine -- downstairs in the production room and upstairs in the control room. Ditto for our recordings. However, a wide portion of roof shingles have been torn off, exposing the tarpaper underneath. If we don't fix that roof in a hurry, our equipment and recordings will be ruined.
I'm trying to read this and work on files and answer the phones and so I am doing everything a little half assed but I can say that the destruction of this station's library would be a tremendous loss, not just to New Orleans, but to, like - the world. Or history.
Anyway - this is a great link to find out where and how some local NOLA artists are faring post-Katrina. Also, you can donate or join or do something. I know everyone is already doing everything that they can for a gazillion different causes but hey - here is another one.
Also, they have a web-stream enabled (I think - I'm at work and can't access that kind of thing) and you don't want to miss that.
ETA: I was right! This is the same station I used to listen to and it is fantastic - real New Orleans music and shows and just a great community resource! General Manager David Freedman writes in his blog on 9/9 (after getting back into the city to inspect the facilities)
In former times WWOZ resided in Armstrong park-- a park with man-made lagoons. Now it is a nature-made lagoon with a piece of park in it. Happily, our studio is still in the park part and not in the lagoon part. We did take water, perhaps a foot or six inches, so we will loose the flooring. But Damond went into the building and ALL of our equipment seems to be fine -- downstairs in the production room and upstairs in the control room. Ditto for our recordings. However, a wide portion of roof shingles have been torn off, exposing the tarpaper underneath. If we don't fix that roof in a hurry, our equipment and recordings will be ruined.
I'm trying to read this and work on files and answer the phones and so I am doing everything a little half assed but I can say that the destruction of this station's library would be a tremendous loss, not just to New Orleans, but to, like - the world. Or history.
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Date: 2005-09-22 06:19 pm (UTC)As for WWOZ, I really think they are the best public radio station I have ever had the pleasure of listening to and so I pimp, pimp, pimp.
All friending is welcome - no need to ask! Pull up a chair and hang.